Perform actions on you iPhone or iPad with previously recorded touch gestures

If you are a frequent visitor on our blog you will probably know enough about virtues of iPhone jailbreaking. One of the best things which come through jailbreaking is a large number of different apps and tweaks which are available through Cydia app store. There are some tweaks which can significantly increase the productivity and usability of your iOS devices and then there are some of them which are nothing more than sheer fun. Gesturizer is an app which could be considered to belong to the group of useful apps. It s made by iOS developer Conrad Kramer, and it attempts to make best use of iOS multitouch gestures.

New iPhone jailbreak tweak Beyond SMS

One of our goals is to introduce our readers with new and interesting tweaks and apps for their jailbroken iPhone or iPad. This time we want to let you know about an interesting tweak for your native iOS Messaging app. It isn’t a spectacular app especially if you have already used such great apps as Bite SMS or SMSPlus but in some cases this small tweak could be just what you need. It can expand and significantly improve your basic iOS messaging app.

Jailbreak tweaks for iPhone:CardSwitcher multitasking

The fall of Web OS was sharp and deep. Many developers have expected much more from such a great mobile OS. But these expectations weren’t realised, or at least not at this time. For those people which were intrigued by some aspects of WebOS here is a new jailbreak tweak introducing a Web OS like element known as the Card. Card is a multitasking app switching method, inspired by Web OS where Card was originally applied.

iPhone jailbreak tweak: improve your SMS efficiency with Rapid Contact

Lately we have seen an increasing number of tweaks which use gestures for various functions. This is becoming a trend among developers and many users will probably be thankful for this kind of development. Jailbreak tweaks which focus on gestures will improve efficiency and usability of your iPhone or iPad while at the same time adding a certain level of sophistication to it. Here is another app which uses gestures for improving basic iOS features.

Useful Jailbreak tweaks: Icon Commands

Here is a great tweak fro you if you have a jailbroken iOS device. Icon Commands which you can get from Cydia is a freshly developed Cydia tweak created by a developer known under his professional nickname FrozenSun. This tweak enables you to prescribe particular actions to taps on your Springboard.

You can perform special actions depending on how many times you tap on some icon. So if you decide to tap two times on some particular icon and the delete option will appear. There are default actions for this tweak and they include: AppInfo, delete, jiggling, hide etc. Icon Commands can be configured in your Settings app and it allows further customization, or if you are an developer you can develop your own plugins for the tweak!

Jailbreak tweak: Lock Gestures for iPhone

Here is an interesting tweak we just discovered in Cydia. This tweak was made by Tolani Akhil and it’s sole purpose is to allow you take action by doing gestures on your iPhones or iPads lockscreen. LockGestures will enable you to start or stop your music stream, start or close apps, call friends, unlock your device and much more all while your device is screen locked. All you’ll need to do is to perform your specified gesture like; swiping up down, left, right with your finger, pinching gesture with two fingertips or any other touchscreen gesture.

Jailbreak tweak: how to add compass to your iOS maps

We wrote recently about an iOS map tweak which adds an speedometer to your maps app. And while this is not as precise as a real speedometer it can greatly improve your iOS map capabilities. Now the creator of Speed for Maps, jailbreak app developer Evan Colleman has released another map related tweak: Compass for Maps. Like Speedometer for Maps this is another simple tweak in your toolbox. When you install the tweak, a small compass will appear on your map showing you the exact direction you are moving to.

Jailbreak tweak: Speed for Maps on iPhone introduces speedometer for maps

One of the best map related apps in the smartphone world is the one available in iOS world as a native iOS app. But one of the missing features with it is that it lacks a speedometer. But again thanks to jaiblreaking and jailbreak app developers we have another great solution and improvement. Speed For Maps ia a new jailbreak tweak which is available for all iPhones which are on iOS 4.x.x and solves that problem. When you install this tweak, it will add an indicator for speed in the bottom of the screen when you use the Map app.

Cydia tweaks: Delete word

If you are heavily using your iPhone to send emails, text messages, social network updates or any similar task, you will have to type fast and precisely. But this isn’t always easy especially with an virtual on screen keyboard we have on our iPhones. So editing typing mistakes is something you’ll have to do quite often, especially if you are an iPhone novice. So far to delete letters or whole words was quite a slow task, as you had to delete only one sign at a time. This doesn’t become faster even if you press and hold the delete button.

iPhone Cydia tweaks: password protect your iPhone folders with FolderLock

A new but potentially quite interesting and useful tweak is coming soon from app developer Andrea Oliva. This tweak which is called FolderLock is compatible with iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch and it will enable you to lock any or all of your iPhone folders. This basically means that you can easily password protect all your data which is potentially very useful if you have many sensitive informations stored and wouldn’t like some of them to be accessible to your kids.